New Orleans miscellaneous documents, 1810-1879.

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New Orleans miscellaneous documents, 1810-1879.

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Documents include a portion of a legal document signed by Charles Laveaux, father of Marie Laveaux (1810); a slave sale document bearing the signature of Marie Laveaux (1838); and two documents pertaining to property on Dauphin Street in New Orleans (1865, 1879).

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Laveau, Charles, 1775-1835.

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Laveau, Marie, 1801-1881

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Marie Laveau (b. Sept. 10, 1801, New Orleans, LA–d. June 15, 1881, New Orleans, LA) was a New Orleans Voodoo Queen in the 19th Century. Her parents were Marguerite Henry, a free woman of color of Native American, African, and French descent, and Charles Laveau Trudeau. She was married to Jacques Paris for a year before he died; they had two daughters. After Jacques's death, Marie worked as a hair dresser to the New Orleans elite and lived with Christopher Dominick de Glapion. During h...